Ice Age Fossils State Park
Ice Age Fossils State Park is a state park in Clark County, Nevada. Day use costs $3.00. Hours: Wednesday - Sunday 8:00am - 4:30pm.
Check current closures and fire restrictions for Ice Age Fossils State Park on the managing agency's own page.
Ice Age Fossils State Park map
Ice Age Fossils State Park boundary from USGS PAD-US or the managing agency, simplified for display. Not for navigation or legal boundaries.
Fire restrictions
One fire restriction order is recorded for this unit as of Sept. 30, 2026. Each links the signed order.
Nevada Fire Info, BLM Nevada's interagency fire site, keeps the Nevada fire restrictions map and signed orders for every fire zone, and a Nevada fire map of active fires.
Common questions
- Entry to Ice Age Fossils State Park costs $3.00. Hours: Wednesday - Sunday 8:00am - 4:30pm.
- No, day use at Ice Age Fossils State Park does not need a reservation; pay the entry fee on arrival.
- Wednesday to Sunday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., same as the park. Exhibits, restrooms, drinking water, covered seating, gift shop (as of September 26, 2026).
- Yes, dogs are allowed at Ice Age Fossils State Park.
- No, drones and other remote-controlled aircraft are not allowed at Ice Age Fossils State Park.
Before you go
Day use needs no reservation; pay the entry fee on arrival.
- Drinking water available
Trails
- Megafauna Trail Life-sized sculptures of Ice Age animals; runs from the visitor center's back patio to the restroom building
- Las Vegas Wash Trail Starts and ends at the Monumental Mammoth; runs through the upper Las Vegas Wash
- Big Dig Trail Starts and ends at the Trench K Trailhead; walks through trenches bulldozed in the 1962-63 Big Dig
- Trench K connector Links the Megafauna Trail to the Trench K Trailhead
What to see
- Feature Visitor center Opened January 20, 2024; natural history exhibits and a gallery of Tule Springs fossils
- Feature Monumental Mammoth Life-size mammoth sculpture where the Las Vegas Wash Trail starts and ends; once shown at Burning Man
- Historic site Trench K Trench cut by the 1962-63 Tule Springs Expedition (the Big Dig); has its own trailhead
- Feature Megafauna sculptures Life-sized sculptures of extinct Ice Age animals along the Megafauna Trail
Public lands next to Ice Age Fossils State Park
- National Park Service unitIce Age Fossils State Park borders Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument.
- National wildlife refugeDesert National Wildlife Refuge is 0.8 miles away, straight line between the two boundaries.
Measured between the units' boundaries as mapped in USGS PAD-US. Distances are straight line, not driving.
- https://parks.nv.gov/parks/ice-age-fossils (accessed 2026-09-24)
- https://parks.nv.gov/learn/park-histories/ice-age-fossils-history/ (accessed 2026-09-26)
- https://parks.nv.gov/ice-age-fossils-state-park-park-rules/ (accessed 2026-09-26)
- https://parks.nv.gov/about/reservations (accessed 2026-09-26)
- https://www.nps.gov/places/ice-age-fossils-state-park-visitor-center.htm (accessed 2026-09-26)
- https://dcnr.nv.gov/news/nevadas-ice-age-fossils-state-park-opens-in-las-vegas (accessed 2026-09-26)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Age_Fossils_State_Park (accessed 2026-09-26)
- https://everyday.vegas/activities/parks-outdoors/jurassic-vegas-ice-age-fossils-state-park/ (accessed 2026-09-26)